The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening, The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The following bills were read a second time :—Ponty pri,ld Water, Sudden Bridge and Bury Roads, and Wliitby Water. The Whitehaven Water Bill was read a third time and passed. HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OP COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The London and South Western Railway (Kensington, &c.) Bill was read a third time and passed. NON• IN TERVENTION. Mr. COBDEN gave notice that he would move a reso lution to the effect, that'the policy of non-intervention in the affairs of foreign countries in Europe should be adopted in reference to China. THE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION• _ Sir J. PAKINGTON gave notice of a motion to in quire into the whole subject of the appointment and con stitution of the inspectors of public schools. PAYMENT OF RATES AND TAXES BY MILI- TARY OFFICERS. Col. NORTH asked whether any decision had been ar rived at by the War Department and Treasury as to the payment of rates and taxes by officers of the army occupy ing Government houses in the performance of their duties. The Marquis of lIARTINGTON said that no decision had been arrived at in respect to this subject. It was a question that concerned the Admiralty rather than the War-office, and at present the Government were not pre pared to take any steps in reference to this matter. AUSTRIAN SQUADRON IN THE DOWNS. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the First Lord of the Trea sury whether an Austrian squadron had not arrived in the Down and other of our harbours ; and whether the Channel fleet had not been ordered round to the Downs; and, if so, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to allow the Austrian ships of war to proceed to the Baltic or the North Sea without being accompanied by the Chan nel fleet ? Sir G. GREY said that there were three or four Austrian ships is the Downs, and he believed there were some others on the way to this country; but he under stood the only orders that had been issued by the Austrian Government were that they should protect German commerce in the North Sea. The Channel fleet was in the Downs, but there had been no instructions given to the commander, as it was understood the Austrian squadron would not proceed to the Baltic. THE SEWAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. Lord 14. MONTAGU asked the First Commissioner of Works why the return ordered by the house on 24th July, 1863, on the motion of Mr. Ayrton (viz. No. 67, Sewage (Metropolis), copy of all advertisements published by the Metropolitan Board of Works, &c.) had not been prefented, and when it would be laid upon the table and printed. Mr. COWPER said that this subject did not pr3perly come within his department, but he was in a position to state that the return in question was nearly completed and would be shortly laid on the table. LEGAL PROCEDURE IN JERSEY. Mr. PAULL asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention had been drawn to a bill intitled "a Bill the amend the Constitution, Practice, and Procedure of the Court of the Island of Jersey," purporting to deal with the judicial establishments and taxation of the said Island, and asked whether such bill had been intro duced with the concurrence and approval of her Majesty's Goverment. Sir G. GREY said that his attention had been drawn to this subject in consequence of the bill that had been laid on the table by his hon. and learned friend the member for Southwark. That bill was read a second time, but he understood that it would not be proceeded with at present. A. similar bill was introduced about three years ago, and there was no dissent to the measure oa the part of the Government, or he believed any member of the house. Mr. BRIGHT said he wished to know if the right hon. gentleman had expressed any concurrence in this bill ont of the house. Sir G. GREY said that no communication hal taken place between him and the hon. and learned member who introduced the bill, and he had expressed no opinion on the subject further than what he had stated in the house. ALLEGED BUTCHERY OF INDIANS SEEKING PROTEC CION IN BRITISH TERRITORY. Mr, HENNESSY asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if it was true;that Major Hatch, commanding the United States troops in Minnesota, applied in the month of March last to the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Red River for permission to pursue and kill within the British territory, wherever they might be found, a tribe of Sioux Indians who had fled within the British boundary for protection ; and if it was true that the Go vernor of the Hudson's Bay Company granted their request, stipulating only that the Indians should not be butchered in the houses of any of the settlers with whom they had sought refuge. Mr. CARDWELL said that inquiries had been insti tuted, from which it appeared that there had been much exaggeration on this subject. Steps had been adopted to prevent the murder of innocent women and children. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. EIVAIZT moved for a select committee to inquire into the expediency of maintaining the punishment of death. The hon. member, at some length, urged the n3ual argu ments in favour cf the abolition of capital punishment, and referred to those countries where it had been abolished to show that the remission of capital punishment had not been followed by any increase in the crime of murder. He went in detail intc statistics, and cited the authority of several learned judges in support of his views, and denounced the punishment cf death as a failure in deterring from the com mission of murder, and opposed to the growing opinion and Christian sentiment of the day. Mr. DENMAN seconded the motion, and contended that the effect of capital punishment practically was to in crease instead of diminish crime. The natural horror which persons felt in condemning a human being to death led to an exactitude of evidence being required that in many cases totally defeated the ends of justice, and in many in stances prevented the possibility of conviction, particularly where females were concerned, He was able to bear personal testimony to that fact from having been profes sionally engaged in the trial of persons in dicted for murder. This subject had not been brought before the house since 1556, and as there was a great deficiency in regard to digested data and information in reference to it,. much benefit would necessarily result from the inquiries of a select committee. He impressed on the house the fact that in no case where capital punish. meat had been abolished abroad had it been reimpoaed. Lord H. LENNOX proposed as an amendment that a select committee to appointed to inquire into the operation of the laws relating to capital punishments, and pointed to the notorious cases of Jessie M`Lachlan, Samuel 'Wright, and William Hall, as showing that whilst the first of them, one of the mast flagrant of criminals, had escaped the ex treme punishment of her offence, the second had been executed for having taken the life of a woman in a drunken quarrel, and the third had been very properly respite& This uncertainty about the administration of the law rendered it desirable, he thought, that the inquiry should not be restricted within the narrow limits suggested by Mr. Swart, but should be more comprehensive in its scope and objects. MITFORD seconded the amendment, recommend hag that public executions should be discontinued, as pirates were now no longer hung in chains at cross-roads or the heads of traitors stuck on Temple Bar. Mr. A.lderrnan. ROSE observed that, from his own ex perience as one of the Commissioners of the Central Cour he could undertake to say that juries for the most part dis charged their functions conscientiously, and that capital punishments were useful in a moral point of view. After a few words from Mr. NEATE, Sir G. GREY objected to both motion and amendment, cn the g,i °mad that the question was not one that constituted a fit subject for reference to a committee. Considerable changes had of late b mu effected in the criminal law, and for many years capital punishment had been limited exclusively to cases of conviction for wilful murder. He thought it would not be either safe or expedient to abolish capital punish ment altogether, for by so doing the security which now fenced round human life would be removed, the number of murders be permanently increased, and the deterring effect which the apprehensi on o f cap i tal punishment now exer cised be destroyed. If any secondary punishment could be devised that would be more effectual for the preservation of human life he should g l a dl y a d opt it, but according to the judges who were examin e d b e f ore the Lords' c tee, which opinion agreed with that of the committee them.. selves, the punishment of death ought to be maintained for offancea of the gravest character ; and he believed that no punishment was so much dreaded as the punishment of death. The right hon. gentleman stated, however, that whilst opposed to the motion of the amendment he had no objection to the notice placed on the paper for the appoint ment of a royal commission to enquire into the provisions an d operation of the laws under which the punishment of death is now inflicted in the United Kingdom, and to report whether it is desirable to make any alteration, Mr. BRIGHT, alluding to the remarks of the Home Sec retary, said he attached little importance to the opinion of the judges upon this subject; for almost every ameliora tion of our criminal cJde had been carried against the o pi n ion of the majority of the judges. The question was, oug ht capital punishment to be retai ne d or a b o li she d , and, denying as he did that it was a dete:rent o f cr i me , he contended that it ought to be blotted ouitacfthe statute book. It was unfortunate that England l had been always the most barbarous of Christian countries punishments; Seeing o f and so it w as now, notwithstanding h death was vi s it e d u p o n the crime of murtdear punishmentonly. what we had done f or the amelioration of our criminal code he did not think there was a man with a particle of reason who believed that human life was more secure because 10 or 12 men were publicly put to death every yea . Human life and its security did not depend upon any su " miserable and barbarous contrivances as that, but upJn a reverence for human life. If they estimated the securitit a for human life and put them at 100, and calculated how much was owing to our savage laws and how much t the reverence for human life implanted in the human soul, he believed that only 5 or 10 might be attributed to the influence of law, whilst 90 or 95 were due to the feeling he had referred to. When a man was hanged in the face of the public, if the shocking nature of the punishment operated in the slightest degree to deter from crime, he undertook to say that by so much were the other and greater securities that depended upon reverence for human life weakened. If a commission were appointed he hoped no judges would be placed upon it, but that it would be constituted of men in whom the house and the country would have confidence, and who would receive evidence from whatever source it might be offered them. If that were done he had no doubt the result would be at least to produce a considerable improvement in the law. _ Mr. 1 , 4 EIVDEGATE replied at soma length to the ar guments of Mr. Bright, which he pronounced fallacious, and vindicated the character of the judges from the insinua trons thrown out against them by that gentleman. He repudiated the idea that England was a barbarous country because she punished with death the m an who robbed her of one of her citizens. Mr. GIL PIN spoke in favour of the total abolition of capital punishment, and Mr. Roebuck and Sir J. Walsh for its retention. Mr. HIBBERT suggested that the commission should include within their inquiries the mode in which public executions were inflicted in this country. Mr. MAGTTIRE mid the Government had acted wisely in consenting to the appointment of a commission, and ex pressed a hope that the present Parliament would conse crate its memory by an act which would satisfy the best feelings of the people, at the same time that it did no injury to any public interest. Mr. EWART having intimated his acceptance of the proposal of the Government, the motion and amendment were both withdrawn ; and on the motion of Mr. Neate a resolution was agreed to, to the effect that an address be presented to her Majesty praying her to issue a Royal commission to inquire into the provisions and operation of the laws under which the punishment of death is now inflicted in the United Kingdom, and the manner in which it is inflicted, and to report whether it is desirable to make any alteration therein. Leave was given to Mr. FERRAND to bring in a bill for compensating the families of persons killed by boiler explosions through the neglect or default of the owner. Sir G. GREY obtained leave to introduce a bill for fur ther regulating the closing of publichouses and refreshment houses within the metropolitan police district; and Mr. BASS had leave to bring in a bill for the better re gulation of street music within the metropolitan police district. The Insolent Dcbtors' Bill, the object of which was to enable poor debtors imprisoned for sums less than £2O to obtain their discharge after a short confinement, provided no lawful cause was shown to the contrary, was read a second time on the motion of Mr. PAULL after some discussion. The Customs and Inland Revenue Bill was read a third time and pased. The Partn , rship Law Amendment Bill was committed, and the other business on the paper having been disposed of, The house adjourned at 5 minutes past 1 o'clock, THE WAR IN DENMARK, (From the Times Special Correspondent at the late Danish Head-quarters.) COPENHAGEN, April 30. We received yesterday at this place the intelli gence of the evacuation of Fredericia. The fall of that fortress comes closely after the capture of the Dybbol bastions; it will be no less speedily followed by the abandonment of Alsen. I shon'd not at this moment be in Copenhagen had there been the faintest hope of a different issue of the contest. From the moment I saw with my own eyes what I could not have believed on other people's report—when I saw, on the morning of the 19:h, masses of Prussian infantry coming out of the Dybbol bastions taken by them the day before, and marching down the hill in serried ranks to the tete-de-pont, and to the very margin of the Sound, —when I saw, on the other side, the Danes stand ing idly to their guns at the Church Battery with ont firing a shot, when hardly a shot could be fired without striking almost a bout portant into the enemy's columns—from that moment, I say, I felt that there must be some reason for the overween ing rashness of the Prussians, and for the inaction and forbearance of the Danes. At first I thought a temporary suepensicn of hostilities had been privily agreed upon, but day after day passed and we re mained in the island in a state neither of war nor truce. The two hostile armies stood looking at each other across the water; a cannon shot at very rare intervals was exchanged ; a parlemcntaire from time to time rowed across on either side to settle matters about the dead and wounded, but the Prussians evidently were in no hurry to force their way across 1 the Strait, and the Danes were in no mood to attempt to dispute the enemy's passage. Day after day, as I rode about the island, I was struck with the rapid disappearance of the relics of the Danish army. The lo3s of Dybbol occurred on the Monday. On Tuesday night three regi ments were secretly embarked. On the following day the battalion of the Guards, the only corps that was yet intact, was smuggled away, The headquarters had been removed from Ulkebol to HorupHav, as if their business was not to lead the troops into the field, but to see them safely out of it. Only one division, we were told, was left for the de fence of Ala ; the main part of the army was hasten ing to Jutland. That division, however, as far as I could ascertain, did not exceed 2,000 or 3,000 men, and its artillery consisted of about 12 field-pieces. On Saturday morning the Staff embarked for Funen, and I preceded it. I understood that headquarters were to be established at Assens, not at Fredericia, nor even at Middlefart. and then I concluded there would be no more fighting either i❑ Als or Jutland, and travelled to Copenhagen with the conviction that the war was at an end. I was not mistaken ; during the last few days, we are now informed the troops and niateria had been gradually withdrawn from Fredericia. A trifling skirmish occurred the day before yesterday at out posts, on the left, on the banks of the 0 verswolmeso. The Danes withdrew behind that broad ditch in the evening, and during the night they quitted the for tress and came across into Funen. The few remain ing defenders of Alsen will also give their enemies the slip, at no distant period, if they have a chance. The cavalry division, under Linderkrone, which is now far away in North Jutland, will embark on the first opportunity, and the whole Cimbrian peninsula will lie at the discretion of the Austro-Prussians. The Danes have shown in these backward move ments the same adroitness which characterized their retreat from the Dannewerk. It is a pity they were not allowed to exercise the same inge nuity ire falling back from their position at Dybbol, when it had become untenable. They have now greatly facilitated, if not altogether anticipated, the work of the London Conference. There is now a virtual armistice between the Danes and the Ger mans, unless the latter take it into their heads to cross over into Funen, an attempt which would seem incredible, and in which they might pos sibly meet with greater difficulties than they are likely to foresee, Evidently Funen has now be come the place (Forme of the Danish army. With the exception of the narrow strait dividing that island from Jutland, between Fredericia and Snug hoi on one side and Strip Middlefart or Kongebro on the other, and with the exception of the inlets about Fanoe Island, where the water is on some points hardly more than half a mile across —the Little Belt is a good auxiliary to a State which has no t yet lost its maritime superiority, and even on the banks of the narrower channel the Danes by a concentration of their forces will be able to show a bold front. Experience has taught them, however, that thsir old-fashioned artillery is no better than a mere row o f popguns when brought into collision with the rifled callow] of t; - :e Prussians. It is only this new-fangled engine of war that wore out the constancy of the Danes at Dybbol and advised the abandonment of Fredericia, as it will, no doubt, de termine the evacuation of Ala. The Danes have been true to their programme throughout. They have come to no terms with their enemies; they have given up nothing; they have merely suffered them to take what they could not withhold. They have always made at least a sho w of defence; they have put the Prussians to the trouble of the begin ning of an attack. The traveller beset by the high waa-man has not tendered his purse. Ile has even buttoned up his coat, and laid his hand on his pocket. It may be an idle, unavailing protest ; but the world must take it into account, and give it such credit as It deserves. THE PRUSSIAN ARMY, (From the limes Special Correspondent at the . Head quay ten of the "lilted Armies.) HAMBURG, May 1. The Prussian triumph at Duppel, although much facilitated by Danish exhaustion and unwariness,will still be admitted by all impartial and competent judges to be a creditable feat of arms, on a scale and with results sufficiently important to eclipse the earlier actions of the campaign. If it be true, as there are some grounds for believing, that the Aus trians, sensible of this, were desirous in their turn to distinguish themselves by the assault of Freda ricia, the evacuation of that place, which yesterday surprised every one here, will to them have been a disappointment. Probably, many of their friends will nevertheless consider it a piece of good fortune for the two great German powers that they have thus been prevented from displaying their force against a foe so enfeebled and crippled as poor Den mark. Alsen will doubtless now be occupied without opposition, and the war must be looked upon as at an end. Probably we shall soon hear of an armistice, to which it seems as if there couldnow be no grounds for objection on the part of any of the belligerent powers. All neutrals will rejoice at the termination of the unequal struggle, and that they are spared the spectacle of another monster bombardment, the guns for which were already on their way to Jut land. The 24 brass pieces you were told of as lately lying at the Flensburg railway station, left that place by road on the 27th, and should have arrived in the vicinity of Fredericia yesterday or today, if their progress was not arrested by news of the fortress they were to demolish having been aban doned. You will perhaps have been surprised to read in some of my latest letters from Schleswig that the siege of Fredericia could not be commenced immediately, because artillery which was coming from Prussia had to be waited for. It might natu rally be supposed that the formidable and nume rous park which so successfully battered Duppel and burnt Sonderborg would be more than suffi• cient to perform a similar operation at Fredericia. The fact appears to be that the fresh guns brought up came not as an addition, hut to replace others no longer serviceable. These so-called new guns were merely old ones rifled and converted into breech loaders. In the It a li an campaign, a great many, if not all, of the French rifled guns were made from the old smoothbores. Probably Most of the Prus sian artillery used in this war had never before been fired against an enemy, ilesides the date of their conversion, which on those I saw was 1863 or 1864, many also barb that of their original casting, in most cases Prussian artill- 'oetween 1830 and 1840. The ay officers inform me that in their new form they are equal but to a very moderate amP;ant of work. Those at Gammelsmark have eeen shelved, after firing on an average 800 rounds each. Opinions differ as to the facility of repairing the damage so as to render them again serviceable, but some of the officers who have been using them, and who must be considered highly competent judges, seem disposed to condemn them altogether, and to recommend the manufac• ture of new iron guns on the same principle. It appears that the converted brass guns not merely became leaded, as some supposed, but that their breech-loading apparatus got worn and deranged. The principle on which they are constructed is nevertheless maintained to be excellent by all who have had opportunies of practically judging of it, and you have been repeatedly told that the accuracy of the Prussian f re before Dappel and at Fredericia was such as to excite the unfeigned admiration of all foreigners who witnessed it. Apropos of foreigners, the Russian lieutenant who was the Czar's sole representative with the allied armies, received, early in the present week, orders to return home, and was about to depart when I left Flensburg. The reason he alleged was, as I understand, that the interest of the campaign, and, indeed, the campaign itself, was to be considered at an end. So it has since proved, but it is not the less true that he had made all his preparations to join the Prussian headquarters at Veile when he re ceived the orders to move in another direction. Although Russia lies under the suspicion of having worked to bring about this Danish war, she mani festly has of late viewed it with much dissatisfac tion—probably because it has not taken the course or led to the complications she had anticipated, and in :prevision of which she herself has made such extensive warlike preparations, and increased her rifled artillery by enormous ordera given to Prussian manufactories. There can be little doubt that Prussia, also, had reckoned on things going in some respects d.fforently from what they have done, and that her preparations were made for the great war which might have sprung from the unequal contest in Schleswig and Jut land —preparations on a large scale, and which date from the latter part of last year. The Prussian Government was then already resolved on war, in great measure for domestic reasons, and on taking the risk of a great conflict arising from its onslaught upon a petty Power. It is the opinion of some who, more than most people, have had oppor tunities of studying what passed behind the scenes that no concessions Denmark could possibly have made would have saved her from attack, and that, had she evacuated both Duchies, a pretext would have been found for attacking her in Jutland. You will hardly understand in England that a costly conflict, possibly entailing one of far greater magnitude and much less promising result, should be entered into for the sake of maintaining an unpopular system and strengthening a Government whose home policy had left it almost without sup porters in the nation it ruled. Such, nevertheless, has been the case in the present instance, and if the reports that reach me from Berlin be correct, the plan has been to a considerable extent successful, and the Prussian Liberals, delighted at the lustre cast upon their army by its recent success—per haps, too, anticipating some solid advantage as fruit of the triumph—have abated their feeling of hostility to the present Ministry. This is the rumour that has come to me ; but in Schles wig I rarely saw the Prussian papers, and it will only be on my return to Berlin that I shall ascertain with anything like certainty the real state of public feeling there. Before leaving Flensburg I visited the Bellevue Hospital there, one of those got up by the Johan- niter, or Knights of St. John. This Order, its own resources having been aided by contributions from private persons, has had several establishments of the kind open for some time past. Besides the Bellevue, beautifully situated in a garden on the height immediately behind Flensburg, sot far from the picturesque cemetery where stood the Lion of Idstedt, lately overthrown, the Order has another hospital in what is called the King's Garden, just outside one of the old-fashioned getes, above which are displayed the arms of Flensburg, a quaint specimen of bh.zan, intended apparently to represent two cats jumping out of a dairy window. Then there is a branch establisn ment near to what was a fortnight ago the Prussian front, at the Village of Nubel. This was intended for those patients whose hurts were too severe to allow of their being transported far. I believe there is also a dohanniter hospital at Schlesa ig, but it must have been opened since my last visit to that town. This week the number of patients in the Flensburg and Nubel establishments was between GO and 70, four-fifths of them at the first-named place, and mast of them recovering or not severely wounded. In the Bellevue on Wednesday were three or four bad cases. The Danish Colonel Schow had died, and Count Stolberg himself, as I was informed, took his body to the Prussian ad vanced posts to deliver it over to the Danes. At the King's Garden hospital was ‘lsjor Noetitz, one of Marshal Wrangel's aides de-camp, and son of the well-known General, still living, who was on Blucher's Staff in the 'Waterloo campaign. Major Nostitz lately had his leg broken by his horse fall ing with him. Sisters of Charity were in attendance at Bellevue when I visited it. In an outer room was a bar, or dresser, covered with plates containing meat sandwiches, quarters of oranges, and other food and comforts for the wounded. They were all officers and non-commtssioned officers who lay in that hos pital. I had gone before the hour at which visits are allowed, but I nevertheless was permitted to see two of the rooms, in one of which I found a young engineer officer of my acquaintance, who THB StIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1864. had been one of the foremost in the attack on Duppel forts, leading the pioneers appointed to re move obstacles, and who was hit slightly in the knee almost as soon as he jumped out of the parallel, but who, nevertheless, managed to remain with his men until late in the day. Nothing could be more comfortable, and, indeed, luxurious, than all the arrangements of the establishment,_ the most spotless cleanliness, the purest air, every comfort, in short, that the most ingenious humanity and thoughtfulness could devise. Some of the in mates were in bed, others merely reclining, others sitting at a table and writing letters. The Prussian army is great at letter-writing. As soon as an action or skirmish was over one used to see the soldiers off duty all in their quarters scribbling as fora wager ; 20,000 letters, it was written to me from Berlin, passed daily through the post between that city and the army. It is reported here to-Gay and generally credited, that the evacuation of Fredericia was the conse quence of a military mutiny. This is by no means improbable, considering thcodissatisfaction known to prevail in the Danish army at being compelled by a Copenhagen faction to persevere in so un equal a struggle. It is difficult to explain other wise than in the above manner the abandonment by the Danes of 180 pieces of artillery found by the Austrians in the fortress. There are also reports here of disturbances at Copenhagen, bat nothing certain is known and you will probably have heard of them by this time direet from that capital if there be any foundation for the rumour. General Lilioncrone is now said to be in the island of Mors, instead of having crossed the Lumfjorden, and should that prove to be the case his situation must be perilous. It seems more likely that he will have gone north to embark than have remained on Mors, to be taken as in a trap—unless, indeed, he embarks at Nyk • jobing or some other port in the island ; but his vessels would have to pass through Odde Sound and other narrow passages, and if the allies were on the alert their field batteries might suffice to in flict considerable damage on the retreating force. City Sewers Commission. Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the Commissoners of Sewers of the City of London met at Guildhall, under the presidency of Henry Da Jersey, Esq., Deputy. THE SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE CITY. A number of gentlemen attended before the Court as a deputation from the Al'gate Ward Ratepayers' Association, and presented a memorial complaining of the very inferior quality of the gas now being supplied to consumers, as well as to the public lamps within the City. The memorial, which was read by Mr. Blake, the assistant clerk, stated that the gas at present sup.. plied in the City wss deficient in illuminating pewer, and was charged for at a price which was believed to be muoh beyond that which the cost of production necessitated. A petition was presented to the Court in Nov., 1861, by the inhabitants of Aldgate ward, in which an opinion was expressed that the powers given to the gas companies in the MetropolisGasAct would prove seriously oppressive and detrimental to the interests of the consumers, and should nct have been conceded; and also that the amalgamation of tke companies to raise the price of gas was not justified. The memorialists consi dered that the question has not assumed a favour able aspect since the presentation of the memorial in question, but, on the contrary, the causes of com plaint had increased, The consumers had still to pay the high price of 4s. 61. per 1,000 cubic feet of gas, and got a considerably worse light. They proposed, in order to remedy the evil, that the Commissioners of Sewers should purchase the mains .of one of the present gas companies, that they should manufacture gas to supply the rate payers in like mauner with several other cities and towns, or that the Commission, having the mains, should invite public tenders for the supply of the gas, in order that the best and cheapest supply , should be obtained from private or public compa nies. They expressed a belief that if either of these propositions were adopted it would effectually put a stop to the inconveniences now existing under the present arrangements. Mr. DRESSER ROGERS, one of tEe deputation, said he thought it must be admitted on all hands that the present supply of gas in the City, both as regarded the quality and quantity, was not such as it ought to be; and he thought the ratepayers had a right to complain and urge the Commissioners of Sewers, as the local body, to step forward and give them their assists,nee. The gas companies had obtained acts of Parliament which gave them large powers, and placed in their hands a monopoly which enabled them to realise enormous profits —mush larger, indeed, than was ever contem plated. lie did not complain that a 10 per cent. dividend should be allowed to the share holders, but in some companies as much as 10 per cent, dividend was obtained, Ile did not think it was right the companies should possess the power of paying back dividends, or of increasing the plant and stock, as they were in the habit of doing. Gas, like water, must be considered as one of the necessaries of life, and the ratepayers ought, he thought, to have the benefit of all proles ove r 10 per cent. putt' LLOYD mov©d that the memorial be re ferred to the General Purposes Committee to exa mine and report. He deemed the question to be one of the greatest importance, and he was glad to find the citizens alive to their interests. He observed that the subject of lighting and cleaning the City had been recently brought before the Court of Common Council, and he expressed a hope that the inquiry would lead to som e b enef i cial result. D m e r p . isitAymßut;EßLNGEßLLEEseconded the motion. to the wee kly re ports of Dr. Letheby, f rom w hi ch it appeared t h at the illuminating power of th e gas was general l y i n accordance with the provi s i ons of the act of Parlia ment, and he said he sh ou ld li ke to be in f orme d whether the testings as t o t h e quality of the gas were taken at any other place than the residence of the medical officer. Ho felt that if the gas supplied to the public lamps were tested it would be found that it was not of the power Parliament sanctioned. He complained of the large amount of s ulphur found in the gas supplied to the City, which sometimes, as reported by the medical officer, reached as much as 23, 24, and 25 grains per 100 cubic feet of gas. The act of Parliament sanctioned only twenty grains, and he thought some stringent measures should be taken to compel the companies to con. form to the requirements of the act; and until such steps were taken, h e f e lt that they would never do so. (H ear, h ear.) Wi t hi n the last few days he had be en i n f ormed that i n Liverpool the extreme amount of su l p h ur i n t h e gas was 17 grains in 100 cubic f ee t ; and i f such a state of things could be brought about in Liverpool, what was to prevent a similar result in the city of London ? Mr. Green, after some farther observations, inquired of Dr. Letheby whether it had not been stated in the House of Lords that sulphur could be entirely taken out of the gas by a chemi ca l process ? (Hear.) Dr. LETIIEBY said it was true that such a state ment had been ma d e. T he pro cess referred to was the patent of th e R ev. 11 r . Bowditch, vicar of Wakefield, but i t was sa id to have only the power of abstracting rusulphide of carbon, and it therefore left, untouched the sulphur which existed in the gas in other forms. The committee of the House of Lords, having heard the Rev. Mr. Bowditch •on the subject, wore satisfied that the question of the proportion of sulphur in the gas was too important to be left, that they decided to limit the proportion in the Birmin g h am gas t o 20 grains, provided it was tested by his (Dr. Lethebyte) process, and they had referred it to him to frame a clause to that effect, and that clause now formed part of the Birminghene bill. With reference to the question that the act of put Mr, Green as to the testing of the gas in the City, Dr. Letheby said Parlia ment specified that the gas should be tested at a had no alternative but t test it at that place, and the local authorities. He unless the res because if any further place to be agreed upon betw een the g as com p anies proceedi.`ig 3 vas re taken before the justices no evi dence as t o t .‘ pr oduced at the appointed 4 were a t: Ltesting o f the gas could be received place. Ae.: a ch e , the observations at the k u -eyed that he made testing place, h o Weyer, h e 04,, experiments almost every night at other places. (Hear.) In reply to Deputy ELLRAT, Dr. lattltEtY stated further that be had made many observations for the local atithorit:es outside the city of London with reference to the lighting of the street lamps, and his opinion was that the lighting geuerally throughout the metropolis was pretty nearly the same. The defective lighting in the City arose more from the oldness of the fittings than the bad quality of the gas ; and he believed that the work of lighting the public lamps would not be satisfac torily performed until the commission had the mat ter entirely in their own hands. (Hear.) Deputy FARRAR said the Court had no power to act as was suggested by the memorialists, and he thought the gentlemen forming the deputation should not go away with the impression that they could take into their own hands the lighting of the City without an act of Parliament. He thought the whole question must be considered before such an act was applied for. (Hear.) SANATORY CONDITION OF TAE CITY. Dr. LETIIEBY presented the following report on the sanatory state of the City : " Gentlemen,—The inspectors' returns which are before you relate to 291 houses that have been in spected, and I submit a list of 133 places for sanatory improvements. I also submit a listof places requir ing further proceedings on account of orders already issued, but not yet complied with. " The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly inspected, and the officers have condemned 4,0171b5. of meat as unfit for human food. It con sisted of 31 sheep, 2 pigs, 23 quarters of 13 joints of meat-1,4311b5. were diseased, 1,3961b5. were putrid, and the rest was from anitn:.'s that had died from accident or disease. " The mortality returns for the week are less than the average far the season. Only 47 deaths were registered in the week, whereas the average for the corresponding period of the last eight years is 55, Twenty, or nearly half of the deaths were among children of less than five years of age, and 14 among old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of de lth were as follows :—Con sumption 6, pneumonia 4, bronchitis 7, hydro cephalus 2, measles 3, whooping-cough 1, and scar let fever 1, making together 8 deaths from tuber cular diseases, 11 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and only 5 from diseases of a zymotic character. These returns, therefore, indicate a satis factory condition of the public health.—l remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) " H. LETHEBY." THE GAS SUPPLY. Dr. LETIIEBY reportel that the illuminating power of the gas supplied during the week by the three City gas companies had been above the re. quirements of the Act, and that the quantity of sulphur had been in excess of the quantity sanc tioned by the Act. Some other business was transacted and the Court adjourned. Naval and Military Intelligence. TTIE NAVY. 'no following statement shows the number of ships, guns, men, horse-power, and tonnage of the ships of the Channel fleet, all of which, with the exception of the Prince Consort, are now anchored in the Downs, and all are ready to proceed to any part of the world within 24 hours. The Prince Consort is at present off Co wee, as guard ship during her Majesty's stay at Osborne. This squadron con sists of one screw ship, four iron screw ships, one iron-cased screw ship, one screw frigate, and one screw steam gunboat, all of which are under the command of Rear-Admiral of the Red Sydney Colpoys Thicres, C.B , whose flag is in the Edgar. The ships are—the Aurora, 35 guns, 515 men, 400-horse power, 3,318 tons, Sir F. L. M.Clintock, commander; the Black Prince, 41 guns, 704 men, 1,250-horse power, 6,109 tons, J. F. B. Wain wright, commander ; the Defence, 16 gi. :ns, 450 men, 600-horse power, 3,720 tons, A. Phi:L: - more, commander ; the Edgar, 71 guns, 880 men, 600 horse-power, 3,091 tons, G. T. P. Hornby, com mander; the Hector, 34 guns, 650 men, 800 horse power, 4,089 tons ; G. W. Preedy, CB., com mander; the Prince Consort, 35 guns, 660 men, 1,000 horse-power, 4,045 tons, G. O. Willes, C. 8., com mander; the Trinculo, 2 guns, 24 men, 60 horse power, 236 tons, J. B. Creagb, commander ; the Warrior, 40 guns, 660 men, 1,250 horse-power, 6,109 tons, Hon. A. Cochrane, commander. The screw gun vessel Torch, 5, 80• horse power, has been surveyed at the hands of the master ship wrights' staff since she has been in dock, and the result of the inspection has led to the discovery that she is altogether rotten, and will require some ex tensive repairs. On removing her planking many of her timbers were found to be so much decayed that they crumbled away on being touched with the finger. The Torch is a contract-built vessel, and was constructed for the Admiralty some few years ago. The Shannon sailing ship, freighted by the Go vernment authorities for the conveyance of invalided and time-expired soldiers from the Mauritius to England, arrived at Spithead yesterday. She em barked the troops at Port Louis on the 04. h of Feb ruary, sailing on the following day. On the 7th of March she arrived at St. Helena, and on the 9th made her Baal start for England. One death, that of a gunner in the Royal Artillery, named Mee, occurred on the voyage. The officers and troops on board consist of Lieut. T. T. Gorld, 2d battalion 13th Foot, in command ; Lieut. E. Sawbridge, 2d battalion 24th Foot; Capt. Manderin, R.E. ; Slug. J. Holloway, Staff Assist. Snrg. T. F. Newland and Mrs. Berkeley. Troops.—Royal Artillery-1 ser geant, 5 men, 2 women, 2 children. Royal Engi neers-5 men, 1 woman, 1 child. 2d battalion 13th Foot-2 sergeants, 112 men, 4 women, 9 children. 24th Foot-2 sergeants, 26 men, 1 woman, 1 child. About 20 of the foregoing are time-expired men, Sec., who were landed from the ship yesterday and sent on to their respective destinations. The re mainder of the troops., consisting of invalids, will be transferred at an early hour this morning to a Go vernment steamer, which will convey them to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Richard Roche, to to the Excellent; Fred. A. Johnstone, master, to the Salamis; George B. Bedford, midshipman, to the Warrior ; Samuel Grose, assistant-surgeon, to the Seringapatam ; Matthew Murray, engineer; to the Asia, as supernumerary ; and Hugh Duncan, supernumerary in the Indus, promoted to engineer. THE ARMY. The half•yearly spring inspections of the troops at Chatham garrison have been commenced by Major-General H. Eyre, who has just completed the inspection of the corps of Royal Engineers at headquarters, under the com mand of Col. H. D. Harness, C.B. In the course of his inspection Major-Gen. Eyre visited the various departments connected with the Royal Engineer establishment, and also visited the schools in which the officers and men are daily under instruction. In accordance with a telegram received at Chat ham from the Admiralty, a detachment of non-corn: missioned officers and men of the Royal Marine Light Infantry left head-quarters yesterday morn ing for Deal, for the purpose of filling up vacancies on board the vessels comprising the Channel squad ron. 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These pills are the best preventatives of indigestion, and the mildest aperients ever prescribed. They purify and cool the blood, and equalise the circula tion through the system, even to the ininutest vessels of the akin. They act admirably on the liver and kidneys. Holloway's Pills control with safety and certainty all irre gularities of action, which may be diminishing muscular or nervous energy, by their wholesome influence over both corporeal and mental functions. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, ----a-- TIMES.—The conqeest of Continental Denmark by the German armies may now be looked upon as complete. Everything but the sandy wastes which form the northern extremity of Jutland has passed into their possession. Not content with occupy ing the principal places of the Peninsula, and quar tering troors en the inhabitants, Field-Marshal von Wrangel has, it repett true, seizes ,;levell per sons and sent them to Prtiselh to he detaine.. l as hostages until the payment of an extratagant war contribution. At the same time it is avowed that the Allies demand from Denmark e sum to cover the expenses of the war ; in other words, that Den mark is to be compelled to pay for the movement of the troops that have despoiled her. Amid such events it is little comfort to be told that the Aus trian ships of war which have been hurried round from the Mediterranean have no immediate inten tion of going to the Baltic, or that we have a fleet which is capable of pursuing them. In the case of an attack on the Danish islands, no doubt the Channel Fleet could interfere with effect; but as long as the Germans keep to the Peninsula there seems nothing to stop them in their career of spoliation. It is in these circumstances that the Conference resumesirs sittings, and that this country will make its last efforts to induce the two Powers to pay respect to their engagements. That the re monstrances of our representatives will be successful we have little hope. The designs of the Iwo Powers, whatever they may be, will be carried into effect, and if they tend to a European war the curse must light on the heads of their authors. We do not pretend to foresee the future, but it requires no great acuteness to discern that a movement has begun in Northern Europe which will lead to changes more important than any since 1815. By the fanaticism of the German people and the rivalry of their Sovereigns the old combinations of Europe have been more broken than by the events in the East ten years ago, or by the Italian Revolution. It is even now difficult to understand the real forces which have been at work in this deplorable conflict. At the bottom, no doubt, there is the strong movement among the German people, the most extraordinary agitation which has affected them in our time. This nation, ordinarily so tran quil under the hands of power, particularly with respect to its relations with foreign nations, had been filled by some 20 years of angry discussions with a hatred of the Danes, which burst out as soon as one of its Princes gave the signal. The present generation has grown up to hear of little but the wrongs and the essential unity of Schleswig and Holstein. All the young men, from the Crown Prince of Prussia downwards, are strong anti- Danes, and attach to the petty questions about the Kiel University and the schoolmasters of mid- Schleswig an importance which those who know their apathy in affairs of greater moment can ill understand. It would be unjust, however, to sup pose that the present war had been made by Sove reigns, or that it represents only royal ambitions and military restlessness. Such a man as M. von Bismark could not have gone into it unless there had been a real enthusiasm of whin advantage' could be taken. The war is popular, and would have been even more popular if it had been carried on by the minor States as the champions of the Prince of Augustenburg. The Germans really be lieve that by punishing the tyrants of the Duchies they vindicate the rights of the Confederation, and fill the great empires east and west of them with respect for their valour and power. It is a singular hallucination, but it exists, and as a real national feeling it has a certain strength which must be re cognised by statesmen. That this movement, how ever, can be controlled by the German rulers is shown by the ease with which Prussia and Austria took the matter out of the hands of the Diet ant the people. Three months ago, if Germany could have been polled, an immense majority of the nation would have placed the Crown of the Duchies on the head cf the Prince of Augustenburg. They had, they thought, now gained what they had been longing fur during so many years. The Danish yoke was overthrown, and a German Sovereign had been enthroned, not only in the name of his own indefeasible rights, but by the choice of the people. It was only necessary to secure this great victory that the Federal army, or an army contributed by the States of the Confe deration acting under the orders of Frankfort, should drive the Danes out of Schleswig, and give the new Sovereign possession. Yet while the Prince of Augustenburg was the most popular man in Germany, and even in the Prussian and Austrian capitals, the two great Courts had determined on displacing him. They advanced their armies, took possession, not iu his name, but on a pretext which was, in fact, a recognition of Christian IX., and `rem that time the favourite of the people has not been heard of. This sufficiently shows that the Soverel ns of Prussia and Austria are really g co._ us to look to their counsels f° r masters,the ultimatean o of the war, and not to the however much it may demands of the muttitua i ' ~ ere themselves urged suit these Sovereigns to decL on by an irresistible national : I ° v ement. It is what each p es ,, , :r has to gich ain only by considering that we can understand the leadin g cart which hut the Prussia has played in this affair. Througti whole, the Court of Berlin has shown more ,:ni mesity towards the Dines than is to be found in tht: conduct of the Austrians. It may be said that the events of 1848 are sufficient to account for this ; but those events have generated, perhaps, some thing more than mere empty dislike. From dwell ing on the struggle in ch they were then ens gaged and the probability that it would so me day recur, the Prussian politicians have: probably come to cherish a hope that if ever the Duchies 9 were sun dered from Denmark they would become eiteaer com pletely and formally or else virtually parts of the Prussian dominions. There is one idea which the: true Prussian welcomes more than freedom, pro gress, or any other watchword of the Liberal De puties in the Chamber; that idea is the extension of the Prussian State, whether at the expense of Germany or of a neighbouring country. All the Bismarks, present or to come, would receive full absolution from a large part of Prussian public opinion if they could add ever so little and insigni ficant a province to the States which are governed from Berlin. How great, then, would the popu larity of the Minister become he could not only avenge the fancied wrongs of Germany, but more clearly establish the hegemony of Prussia by trans ferring to her the spoils of the vanquished! To place the two Duchies in such a posizion that they will be virtually dependencies of Prussia, and thus perhaps to prepare the way for a complete absorp tion, is just such a policy as M. von Bismark, bold, reckless, and intent on maintaining his power at home by a success abroad, would ima gine. In this Austria would have but little interest ; it may even be against her secret wishes, but since the fall of Dybbol the Austrians them selves are not unwilling to meet the enemy again, and gain for themselves a credit similar to that which has fallen to the lot of their allies. With these two nations, then, which are joined, the one probably from a spirit of covetousness, and the other from rival and vanity, in despoiling the weak, what terms are we to keep ? Why should we regard those traditions which only bid us writ and forbear and submit to insult, while our so-called Allies disport themselves in tearing treaties to pieces ? What have we ever gained by adhering to these German Powers, but the liberty to pay them heavy subsidies or to shape our policy in deference to them, and not according to our own interests ? In the Crimean war we studied the feel ings of Austria, and though the matter concerned her far more than ourselves, yet the Emperor Francis Joseph contented himself with an armed neutrality, and left us to bear all the burden of the war. There ars signs now that the policy of Eng land will not again be subjected to any such influ ences. The tradition of an alliance with the two German Powers, which has lasted for some 80 years, is passing away. This country is free to act as it pleases, and should future events place these Powers in opposition to rtny powerful neighbour, England will have the right to look on as an unconcerned spectator. HERALD.—Whatever hope the English Govern ment may have entertained of a satisfactory issue to the Canference rested upon the presumed unwil. lingnesss of Austria to directly repudiate the Treaty of London, and upon her presumed anxiety to pre vent the extension of the war. Earl Russell cal culated that her support would be eagerly given to any proposition for an armistice, and that, in the discussion of the terms of a definitive settlement, the integrity of Denmark, if it found her no warm supporter, would at least find her no active assailant. The calculation had some warrant, but it was imperfect, and proves a blunder. Austria, indeed, entered into the war with reluctance. She had no sympathy with the Pretender, and very little with the Schleswig-Holstein agi tators. She admitted her obligations under the Treaty of London, and she had the best possible reasons, in the anxiety of Italy to find an opportu nity of going to - war for Venetia, and her own em barrassed finances, to avoid entering into a contest to which it was impossible to set limits. But it was just then the game of the Austrian Ministry not to consolidate the Austrian empire by conci liating the disaffected provinces and developing the resources of the whole empire —that was a prosaic task of which they were tired—but to acquire the preponderating influence in Germany. Germany was mad about Schleswig-Holstein. It cried for war against Denmark, and Prussia was determined to make that war—with Austria, of course, if Aus tria would be foolish enough to join, or, if not, without her. The Austrian Government could not bear the idea of losing temporarily that influence, whatever the risk incurred in attempting to maia• tain it. They were glad to satisfy the noisy German minority which seeks to rule the whole empire, and. Austria, whose only hope lies in the commixture and. conciliation of differing nationalities, went to war against the King of Denmark on the ground that certain German subjects of his objected to he governed by Danes. The Austrian Covernment seems to have thought that it could go to a certain length and then draw back ; that it could occupy Schleswig and prevent Prussia from invading Jutland ; in fact, that it could keep ,juice within the original programme, and alevays be able to draw beck if Prussia.was too ventue-e -some, ra, English Government seems to have fancied Ter same thing, and both have been most egregiously deeei7ed. Prussia has dragged Austria. on from one excess to the other. Prussian troops invaded Jutland. At first Austria, pretested, but,. she soon found herself obliged to beeome an accom plice in the invasion. At first Austria intended that Schleswig should be governed is the name of tne King of Denmark, and his authority should ha reserved. Prussia willed it otherwise. Austria acceded. Austria originally wanted nothing but the revocation of the November constitution, and. - some securities for the Gorman Schleswigers. Now' she is prepared to support alt the demands of . Prussia for a personal reason, which shall render the connection of the Duchies with Denmark a merely nominal one, or even for tele absolute sever ance of the Duchies from the Danieh Crown. Aus tria is completely involved in Herr von Bismark'e meshes, and we believe there can be no doubt of the truth of the statement made by well-in:ormed Ger man newspapers that Austria will ene: getically support the views of Prussia in the Con ferenca- We will not venture here to forecast the issue. Whatever its termination, whether a peace, sacrific ing Denmark, giving Prussia all she seeks, or She renewal of the struggle with England as an ally of Demark, Austria comes off the loser by engaging in this war. She has been playing into the hands, of Prussia. No success in the war can give her the leading position in Germany. The Germans know that the Austrian Government has never been hearty in the quarrel ; that, in fact, its real in terests made it impossible for it to be so. Prussia w ill ;Ls ave all the credit, because it will be rightly considered that it was the determination of the Prussian C-overnment which triumphed over sacria as England. Fo: all the ma d e s h e can get no other ces return Austr tnan the glorification and eggrandizement of her hated rival. The empire has been burdened with a. new loan, and it the occa - , nation lasts a few weeks, longer another must be rat:eed. Hungary has been still further alienated by the' proof which has b ee n given it that the Government is prepared to sacri fice the interests of the empire to its schemes for preponderance in Germany. Tte conciliate the German subjects the public opinion of Europe has been shocked, and the last lingering sentiment of goodwill to Austria destroyed in the bra asts of Eng lishmen—and all to give Prussia the dupremacy for which she has been working for more than a century, but towards which, during the last, thirty or forty years, she had made no advances. in the most favourable event of a peace sacrificing Vens mark, Austria earns a great loss by all her outlay. In the more unfavourable event of a prolongation and extension of the war, she runs the risk of abso— lute ruin. In that case she will have either to fight or watch France and Italy, and even to watch them well would almost break down her strength. She must hold Galicia and Hungary down by great armies, and provide another army to carry on the campaign in the north—an array which must be' far larger and far better equipped. Her navy will be totally destroyed, her commerce ruined, and the whole empire thrown into a condition of complete disorganisation. These dangers are instant, not chimerical. They are dangers wantonly incurred through the absurd dread of losing influence with Germany. Because Germany went mad the Aus trian Government, well knowing that it was mad, pandered to its madness lest Prussia should draw to herself the whole of its crazy sympathies. Austria, which once knew how to wait, has lost her patience which proved so often victorious ; and of the famous Austrian diploniscy the tradition only is left. The history of the Austro-Prussian alliance against Denmark is only another version of the fable of the monkey and the cat, Count Rechherg has drawn the chesnuts out of the fire, and Herr Yon Bismark has gobbled them up. COUNTRY MARKETS. - LEEDS—TUESDAY. Very little business doing hers to-day. Prices are is in udvance, which checks sales. MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY. White wheat, 41s to 445; red, 38s to 40s per 36 st one . Malting barley at 33s to 35s per qr.; grinding, 26s to 28a per 30 st. Oats, old, 23s to 265; new, 20a to 22s pox 30 st. ; beans, 318,t6 42s per qr. LIVERPOOL —TUESDAY. There was a fair attendance both of town and country dealers at market to-day, with a quiet but steady demand at the full prices of last Friday Hour firm, and held for an advance, which buyers were loth to concede. Oatmeal inactive, but at lull rates. Egyptian beans slightly dearer. Indian corn at an advance of 3Let to Gd. Irish grinding barley was in request. SHEFFIELD —TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was an average attendance of factorb, millers, and tanners, and the show of wheat anti other grain was good. Trade rather dull, and prices were at the extreme .7 ates of last w ee k. B eans were i s per qr ad vance. Other art;cles very little altered. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss Od to 16s Od White » , ...17s Od t o 18 s Od New red , c ads Od to 16s Od. New white ~ 1, ~.16s Od to 18s Oti Beans ... 15s 6d to 17s Cld lf Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr. 29s Od to 30 s Oa Malting ditto, ~ 32s Od to 35s Od. Oats l9s Od to 24s Od., 79 Flour, is 4d to is Sd per 14 lb. BRISTOL—TUESDAY. There was a fair attendance of millers to-day, and the sales of wheat were made at 6d to is more money. Bar ley firm, and decidedly better for investment. Beans and peas dull. Oats at the pricos of last week. MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat, 41s Od to 45s Od; new red, 378,0 d to 40s :per 36 stone; beans, 41s to 43s for old; new sorts, 36s to 39s per 38 st. ; barley, 308 to 34s for malting, and 28s to 30s per qr. for grinding; new oats, 198 to 23s Od per 24 stone; old, au to 275. We are requested to state that the National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George-street, Westminster, will, from th 3 present time, be open to the public at ten o'clock instead of twelve on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The trustees have also given authority for the gallery to be open on Whit Monday and Tuesday. A FRENCH " COURT CIRCULAR " NEWSPAPER.— A new journal has made its appearance in Paris, entitled Bulletin de la CCU imperials de Paris, " publie sons to patronage de M. le premier President, de M. le Procureur- , General," &c. It is to appear in fortnightly numbers. 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Mr. James Roberts, of Friruley' Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spittin g ; of blood, liver derangement, and partial d ea f ness. —C ure, No. 47,121. miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fatties.—Cure, No. 54,816. Ihe Rev. James T. Canvbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical reatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 45 6cl; 511), Its; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all grocers and chemists in every town of the United Kingdoni Births. HALLETT.—On the bit inst., at 52, Upper Hyde -park. gardens, the wife of James A. Hallett, Esq., of a son. REXNIE.—On the 2d inst., at 56, Gloucester••terrace, Hyd e park, W., the wife of John Keith Rennie, Esq., of a son. WAREURTON.—On the 2d inst., in The Close, Winchesters the Hon. Mrs. Wm Warburton, of a daughter. Marriages. GLOCll — DucxnAx—On the Ist inst,, at Newington, Surrey, Mr. Christian P. Glock, of the Broadway, Dept ford, to Ellen, third daughter of Mr. Wm. Ducktuan, Commercial-road, Newport, Monmouthshire. GOSLING—Goss.—On the 3d inst., at St. S tep h =n ' s-the- Martyr, Avenue-road, Francis Gosling, Eeq., of 21, Wellington-terrace, St. John's-wood, to Charlotte, the youngest daughter of Mr. Henry Goss, of Sproughton, Suffolk. Deaths. COOKE.—On the Ist inst., at 26, Cambray, Cheltenham Charles Turner Cooke, EtFq., M.R.C.S., age d 7 0. , DUNSANY.--On the 30th ult., at 6, Chester-squAre, tha Dowager Lady Dunsany, aged 84. HoLoitoFT.--On the 29th ult., at Sevenoaks, Mrs. Col. Holcroft, aged 80. HOUGHTON.—On the 2d inst., at 1, Carrington Villas, Richmond, Surrey, Mr. J. G. Houghton, aged 38. MAYO.—On the 30th ult,, at Plaxtol, Kent, the Rev. R. Mayo, M,A., aged 65. SCOTT.—On the tat inst., at South Norwood, Alexander Scott, Esq., aged 36. TVRNEII.—On the 2d inst., at Portsmouth, Lieutenant F. R. 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